Route · AUH → MCT
Flights from Abu Dhabi to Muscat
At barely 381 kilometres, the Abu Dhabi–Muscat hop is one of the shortest international sectors in the Gulf, with block times typically settling around 56 minutes once you factor in taxi and climb. Etihad Airways and Oman Air dominate the route as the natural flag carriers for each end, operating narrowbodies such as the A320 family, while Air India Express adds budget-friendly capacity and the presence of codeshare partners like American, Iberia, and Lufthansa reflects how heavily the sector feeds long-haul connections at both hubs. A practical note worth remembering: Oman runs on Gulf Standard Time (UTC+4), the same offset as the UAE, so there is no clock adjustment to manage. Fares tend to dip during the summer months when regional leisure traffic slows, and midweek departures frequently undercut weekend pricing by a meaningful margin on this heavily commuter-oriented corridor.
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Cheapest dates to fly
Live prices · powered by AviasalesThe calendar below pulls live fares from our search partner for Abu Dhabi (AUH) → Muscat (MCT). Use the year… view to spot the cheapest week to fly, the day-of-week patterns most travellers miss, and any shoulder-season dips worth shifting your trip around. Prices refresh every few hours, so what you see is what your booking page should look like a moment later — click any date to jump straight to the fare on Aviasales.
Airlines on this route
6 carriersThe 6 carriers we currently track on the Abu Dhabi–Muscat route, from full-service flag carriers to low-cost competitors. Tap any airline for its full profile,… baggage rules, fleet context, and a live fare search pre-filtered to that carrier — useful if you're loyal to a frequent-flyer programme, want to compare onboard product on the same dates, or are weighing a cheaper one-stop against a pricier nonstop.
Flights from Abu Dhabi to Muscat
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Abu Dhabi to Muscat — the actual flight numbers, departure and arrival times… your booking page will pull from. Use it to plan around departure preferences (early morning vs late evening), see which carriers fly on which weekdays, or pick a connection that lets you sleep in your own bed before a long-haul leg. Click any row to load it directly in the search.
Airport guides
Quick links into the airport profiles at both ends of the route. Each guide covers terminal layout, the airlines that base hubs at AUH and… MCT, the other routes those airports serve, and the ground-transit options most travellers wish they'd read about before landing — the practical context you only really need to know once you've booked, but want to skim before you do.